Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Locomotive manufacturing is a feast or famine business and since depression hit the railroads after the 1929 crash it has been all famine. After four years of famine, Baldwin was so short of working capital that in 1935 it went into reorganization. But last week it had more than $30,000,000 worth of orders on the books, and things looked far rosier-but not for locomotives...
...Aristophanes' two wandering Athenians who are searching for "some quiet, easy-going place where they can settle down and dwell in peace." After a struggle and a series of complications, Athenians and birds are finally united into "one big happy family" and the play ends with a marriage feast...
More than almost any other, the business of making locomotives is either a feast or a famine. Lima Locomotive Co., third largest in the U. S., feasted in 1937 when it made 101 locomotives at a profit of $1,019,983, first since 1930. Last year Lima got along on beans-it made ten locomotives and lost $687,035. This year Lima is dining a little less frugally-it got an order for twelve locomotives in February. And last week Lima had a new face at the head of its table. Vice President John E. Dixon became president in place...
...trip would give Irv a good chance to get in shape for the 1940 Olympics, as he expects to wade through all American competition without much difficulty. As a matter of record, however, it appears that strenuous opposition will be provided from little Belgium, because in Gramment at the "Feast of Der Krakclinge" the good burghers have been lapping up 500 live goldfish anually since...
After all this the newlywed Crown Prince went to bed with a fever of 102°. But he was not through. Before he is really Fawziya's husband, he will have to travel with his bride to Iran (in a separate stateroom), be married the Persian way, feast 96 hours on goat's meat, watch nautch girls (professional dancers) do their stuff...